Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 11th Earl of Chesterfield

Who was Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 11th Earl of Chesterfield?

Henry Athole Scudamore-Stanhope, 11th Earl of Chesterfield

He was the second son of Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield and Dorothea, daughter of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet, of Smithfield. He joined the Navy in 1869. As lieutenant of the flagship HMS Alexandra he served with the Naval Brigade landed for service in the Sudan with the Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1884-85. He aftwards commanded the Lotus on the Nile, and received the Egyptian medal with clasp and the Khedive's bronze star. He was promoted to command in 1892, and served in the Naval Intelligence Department from January, 1894, to November, 1896. He retired with the rank of Captain in 1905. In January, 1933, he succeeded his brother as eleventh earl.

Lord Chesterfield died 2 November 1935 and was buried at Holme Lacy Church, Herefordshire on 7 November. He was succeeded by his nephew, Edward Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, the only son of his brother, the Honourable Evelyn Scudamore-Stanhope